[
US
/ˈɫæzəɫi/
]
[ UK /lˈeɪzɪli/ ]
[ UK /lˈeɪzɪli/ ]
ADVERB
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in an idle manner
this is what I always imagined myself doing in the south of France, sitting idly, drinking coffee, watching the people -
in a slow and lazy manner
I watched the blue smoke drift lazily away on the still air
How To Use lazily In A Sentence
- Lee's debut on the Xbox does not resemble a dragon, but prefers to plod along like a sloth, short on all the crucial fronts, lazily bumbling along everywhere else.
- The Siamese cat purred and lazily walked towards the kitchen.
- She nodded, her fingers still strumming lazily.
- They were linked by a slack, heavy, silvery chain that swayed lazily when he raised his hands.
- His rumpled hair fell lazily onto his forehead and his hands were buried in the pockets of his trousers.
- She got out of the shower lazily, and had a sharp feeling in her stomach that something would happen today.
- Eels swaying through the waterweed and nosing up to the surface, a turtle sunning itself on a rock and stretching a hind leg lazily, and great big bearded dragons posed on rocks with their tails hanging down into the path, scaring – and being scared by – small children. Dragons in the garden
- I lazily looked it over until I found an ice cream parlor.
- The little waves of the river glittered and shone and rolled lazily down upon the channel, or curled up in rippling eddies towards the shore. The Hills of the Shatemuc
- With his trademark single flaxen plait snaking lazily down his jumper, Britain's leading organic gardener certainly appears to practise what he preaches.